Kaoru Kobayashi

• Birthdate: 1951-09-04
• Place of Birth: Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
• Gender: Male
• Biography: Kaoru Kobayashi is a Japanese actor born in Kyoto. A multi-award winning thespian, he won best actor at the 30th Yokohama Film Festival and best-supporting actor at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Sorobanzuku.

Filmography

Princess Mononoke

A Crowd of Three

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

The Funeral

Tales from Earthsea

Kamui

Kubi

Vacation

Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

Boys on the Run

Secret

Haru's Journey

The Boy and the Heron

Yes, I Can't Swim

And Then

Coquille

The Great Passage

The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya

Ballad of Orin

The End of Summer

Leaving on the 15th Spring

Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2

For Business

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

Winter Rose

The Last U-Boat

Untamagiru

The Washing Machine

Trapped Balloon

The Yin Yang Master Zero

Dr. Coto's Clinic

The Egoists

Climbing to Spring

Female

Midnight Diner

The Way of Osaka Financing 1

Sketches of Kaitan City

Paradise View

Tsugaru Lacquer Girl

Promised Land

Botchan

Kiseki: Sobito of That Day

Call from Darkness

Hear the Wind Sing

Midnight Diner 2

The Black House

Love and Action in Osaka

Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"

Natsumi's Firefly

An Emblem Dedicated To You

Abraxas

Lear on the Shore

Mukoku

The Dropout

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

The Tomb & the Divorce

Chibusa

Eighteen Years, to the Sea

Twilight of the Cockroaches

His Lost Name

The Wangan Highway

The Island of Cats

Kyokuhoku Rhapsody

Love Letter

Hong Kong Paradise

The Second Love

Then Summer Came

Uneasy Encounters

The Sea of Genkai

Shimanto River

Ghiblies: Episode 2

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

Arc

Double Trouble

Like Asura

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

Oboe no Nai Satsujin

Sham

Independence of Japan

The Last Blossom

Ten Dark Women

A Melody for My Father

Le Secret